One time, Ronnie Dale asked me to play a 7th inning stretch at Crosley Field. After the game, he took me back to the dugout to have a ball autographed by the players at the time. Here is a pic of that ball:
You will notice some interesting names on that ball:
Pete Rose
Gordy Coleman
Frank Robinson
Jim Maloney
Some of the Greats in the day!
A REAL Old Picture: Of me when I was age 7 years playing the Hammond B3 in a night club. I played this gig once a month for about a year and a half in 1962-63.
The Club was the Golden Rooster. The man sitting behind me was Ronnie Dale (the featured organist), and during the era, Ronnie was the organist for the Cincinnati Reds at Crosley Field.
That is NOT what a rock band looked like in 1976. I guess you're just playing on the name?
Yes, the year was 1976. I was in Salt Rock II from 1974 (the year after I started college) to 1977 (the year I graduated from college). That band was booked 4 nights a week each week I was a member. That band paid my way through college, paid for my room AND food! Did not barrow a single dollar from my parents, and did not take out a student loan.
@mike-ansberry said in Buying a new home audio system:
Thanks for all the replies!
I decided to bring the Onkyo amp out of the house and into my studio. I found a pair of Klipsh tower speakers that have what I consider to be a really nice sound. I am enjoying the "new" rig.
I have Klipsh speakers and really like 
them much. They have amazing stability so much so that I put my mini moog through them in preference to my Kustom PA system.
@bigdub said in A little humour:
@dr-go said in A little humour:
Good to know. I'll make a note of that. Should I not play my trumpet right after such a snack, either?
Nah. That's why God created spit ball cleaning options for the trumpet.
@bigdub said in A little humour:
MORAL of the story is, don’t wait too long between cleanings.
...or don't eat a three layer hoagie and downing it with a pint of beer before going to bed at night!
@trumpetb said in Tough Decision to make:
If I am looking for a rich and fluffy tonality and I have trumpet c cup mouthpieces then moving to a deeper cup can transform the instrument tonality closer to what I require.
When working with the front end of a mouthpiece, I find it is not influencing the tonality of the horn as much as it is working with the texture of the sound the embouchure can deliver to the horn. It is the front part of the mouthpiece that interfaces with the face, but the back part of the mouthpiece (bore) that interfaces with the horn.
For me, the deeper cup gives me more versatility to play with the puff of air I can deliver to the horn and in this way can bend and texture the notes I play with a horn, any horn.
I love using my Flip Oakes 3C mouthpiece on my flugelhorn that has a very deep cup (can insert my pinky finger to the DIP joint it is that deep). I also prefer my Kanstul G2 (copy of the Gustate-Heim Miles Davis mouthpiece) for my Committee as it provides the most texture of any mouthpiece I own to the dark rich sound of the Committee.
@rowuk said in Tough Decision to make:
I very much disagree with the idea of a mouthpiece transforming an instrument...
Perhaps a mouthpiece choice for a specific horn may not transform the horn, but the right mouthpiece-horn choice can optimize the performance of the horn.
I experienced one exception however. One day during a lesson with Claudio Roditi, he handed me a horn he said he just purchased at a street sale for $75. I played it, and handed it back and said, "Claudio, it sounds like a $75 horn." He then changed the mouthpiece for me and handed me the same horn back. It played with exceptional tone an resonance, yes, it was a horn transformed.
Claudio then gave me a lesson in backbore size, and how the correct gap choice can optimize the height of the sound wave amplitude as it exits the mouthpiece and is transmitted to the leadpipe. At the end of that lesson, we took a cab ride to Jarome Callet's studio, where he hand lathed the backbore of one of his mouthpieces, (it took him 3x to go back and forth to the lathe) until that mouthpiece made my Olds Recording sing, and play more open and better than it have ever sounded. At the time I was playing regularly at a club on Lexington Ave and needed a mic when playing with my sextet. After that day, I no longer needed or used the mic. So for my Recording, maybe not "transformed" but surely, enhanced.
Trumpetb.. from my experience, a ribbon machine has provided me the best recorded sound on trumpet.
@georgeb sure hope he can get this to you and if you don't hear from him.. I will send it to you.
The only other individual that has this manuscript other than BigDub and my band mates is Chris Botti. I gave a copy to Chris at a concert I attended when he was in town. Never heard anything more since then.
Wow! BigDub is holding out on me. I did a search on Google and found this solo recording by BigDub on a song I wrote for which I sent him the manuscript. And to my amazement, he has recorded it. Very nicely done BigDub!
@georgeb said in Hello! Welcome to TB, who are you?:
@trumpetb
I see what you are getting at and understand completely. The trouble is that you may use the most expensive recording equipment in the world and still think your sound is crap if, like me, you are your own worse critic.
Not in my case. I finished a set at the Blue Wisp Jazz Club in Cincinnati, and the owner came over to me and said "You sound like Clifford Brown reincarnated". I turned to my band leader, Eddie Brookshire, and asked, "Did you hear the complement the bar owner just gave me?" And he replied, "Yeah, I just heard that he compared you to a dead man"
So much for a complement turned into a slap in the face.
@j-jericho said in Schlossberg Routine for rebuilding Chops.:
@dr-go Trading message for massage would provide improved benefits overall. True, you need to get the message about the massage first; otherwise the message gets lost, and you miss the massage.
Your message came through loud and clear and was a good massage for my mental reboot. You have done well as my BigDub proof reader understudy.
@dbtrumpet said in Schlossberg Routine for rebuilding Chops.:
Rest is the best medicine but when you have shows coming up right away this Schlossberg Routine from Dave Belknap is a big help. I remember back in the day having a week with Ringling Brothers, the Temptations the next week, a Broadway Show with Tommy Tune and some subbing with the Symphony. I would come home after the gigs and do much of this routine at night, kept me going.
Rest as you noted above is good advice, but when you cannot rest (as you noted in some practical situations) then you also have message. Massage during the performance (sometimes ice massage after the performance) works well. Getting the lactic acid out of the muscle (through massage) is key. Lets put physiology to work, yes? If not, it becomes pathology.
Tastefully applied by Trombone Shorty from 0:43 to 2:41 (almost 2 minutes of circular breathing). Check out the reaction of the audience. This is what I experience in crowd reaction as well.
@trumpetb said in A way to practice.:
Hi Dr GO
That recording is truly excellent.
I withdraw my offer on the basis that I dont measure up.
I will get back to you in 9,999 hours as you suggest
Thanks. With great people backing me up (like Kenny Drew Jr on piano) how can you go wrong?
@trumpetb said in A way to practice.:
I took you at your word and as an experiment half valved my cornet and the sound I got out of the bell was a realistic representation of a hippo farting in a john.
I suspect your 10,000 hours may have been far more focussed and productive than my feeble attempts.
Keep trying. You only have 9,999 hours left to perfect it. 
@trumpetb said in A way to practice.:
@ Dr Go
Do you need a Triangle player????
Interesting concept to using a rhythm instrument. Somewhere along those 10,000 hours I found that with half valving (especially on the flugelhorn) you can get a really authentic Cuica sound on the horn.
Here is a tune I recorded with my quintet (actually Eddie Brookshire's Quintet) that has a Brazilian bossa feel. I am playing my 4 valve Getzen flugelhorn on this tune, and my solo starts about 2:30. At 3:13-3:20, I use the Cuica sound to bring out the Brazilian flavor of the tune, called "Edge of the River"
@trumpetb said in A way to practice.:
@ Dr Go
Do you need a Triangle player????
Have you been playing it for 10,000 hours? OK, I'll give you 3,333 hours since it has 3 sides.
